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Miners Are Quitting for AI (And That's a Good Thing) [NEWS]
Published: March 23, 2026
Duration: 12:20
In this episode of HashrateUp, Jesse breaks down the biggest Bitcoin mining stories of the week: why public miners are selling Bitcoin to fund AI pivots, what that means for difficulty and hash rate, and why the miners still online are quietly winning.
Topics covered: Wintermute's Epoch 5 report on the structurally different mining cycle, mullet mining (AI in the front, SHA-256 in the back), oil price impact on global hash rate, MicroBT's new M7D series, Hive expanding AI data centers in Canada, Bitdeer hitting 68 EH/s and launching a Scrypt miner, Kango's $450M net loss and $305...